President of the Automobile Club of Portugal considers “positive” the new radar system, but argues that the devices should be placed where there are “black spots” and “not in places where they are hunting fine.”
the National System of Speed Control (SYNCHRO) entered into force on Wednesday, with the placement of the first of 30 radar network on the A5 highway that connects Lisbon to Cascais.
the president of the Automobile Club de Portugal (ACP), “the new radar system is positive,” but Carlos Barbosa caveat that the “big discussion point” is the location of the devices.
“You have to do with the National Road Safety Authority (MOR) with the PSP and GNR which are the places where, effectively, there are major disasters and the greatest excesses of speed and put these local radar, “says Carlos Barbosa Lusa.
For Barbosa, the radar should not be placed on” highways who have no one, just because people pass quickly, “but on national roads, where happens the greatest number of accidents. It is in these places that “there must be enough radars, so that people are aware that they can not ride in excessive speed on country roads”, he says.
On the advantages of the new system, Carlos Barbosa points out that ” will bring, at least, more prevention and more awareness to drivers, which effectively can not abuse the speed that is permitted by law. “
the President of the Portuguese Road prevention (PRP), José Miguel Trigoso also welcomes the new system, stating that “it is a first step” to control the speed on the roads and prevent accidents.
“it’s only a first step because the radar, to be actually effective,” must be much more “than what is fitting”, as, for example, in France, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, said Lusa the president of PRP.
Trigoso recalls the importance of radar, explaining that your goal is, through the knowledge of his presence, but not knowing where they are, make a pressure to bring the drivers to keep their speed limited to what is allowed anywhere. “
SINCRO is a system for automatic detection of speeding offense, consisting of a network of speed control locations carefully selected, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs ( MAI).
This system, which will be fully operational in January 2017, will feature 30 mobile radars installed in 50 locations considered “extremely critical.” in a recent interview with Lusa, the Secretary of State of Interior said that 30 radars will not be fixed by turning a rotary system in 50 booths, with their random installation.
the installation of the national radar network has a cost of 3.19 million euros, according to the budget approved in February by the Council of Ministers.
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